Tag Archives: Jean Gabin

Lilac is consorting with the criminal scum of Paris but then she falls in love with a handsome detective… Read More »

Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac Read More »

“Le Dabe” retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. Read More »

Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola Read More »

A French judge try to acquit a man who is accused of murdering his lover. Read More »

A not-so-young doctor tries to explain to women of the fifties(in a small village in the mountain) that painless childbirth is possible Read More »

Nick,a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie Read More »

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Read More »

Charles (Jean Gabin), a sixtyish career criminal fresh out of jail, rejects his wife’s plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. Read More »

Voted 1936’s best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the “gutter” play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Read More »

Andre Laurent, the captain of a tugboat, married Yvonne ten years ago. She has a heart disease but does not want to tell him. Read More »

An engineer is hired to plan the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. Read More »

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. Read More »

Mid-aged married truck driver falls in love with a young waitress he meets while making a break on a long trip. Read More »

Life’s a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. Read More »